Celebrity Dropouts

Check out these famous dropouts that turned out just fine!

Wolfgang Puck didn't need high school at 14. Instead he became a cooking apprentice at a hotel.

F Scott Fitzgerald couldnt pass his classes and failed out of Princeton University.

Coco Chanel left school at 18 to become a famous fashion designer.

Who needs the University of Texas when you can sell apples and bananas as the CEO of Whole Foods?

Steve jobs left Reed College to create Apple products.

Must've been a slap in the face for Harvard when Bill Gates dropped out and found Microsoft

Ted Turner was kicked out of Brown University for having a girl in his room.

John Mayer didnt need Berklee college of music for his career. Instead he came back and majored in sex appeal.

Whose laughing at Jim Carrey now for dropping out of high school at 16?

Mark Zuckerberg ditched Harvard for Facebook.

Russll Simmons quit Manhattan College right before getting a sociology degree.

Natasha Bedingfield was smart enough to leave college for a singing career.

Al Pacino failed his way out of high school and stumbled into acting.

Liverpool College shook their heads at Lennon after his expulsion. So then he joined a band.

Oprah left Tennesee University but on her show "you get a diploma and you get a car!"

Walt Disney dropped out of school at 16, joined the Red Cross, and eventually found good 'ol Mickey Mouse!

Bradd Pitt signed out of the University of Missouri two weeks before graduating.

Tom Hanks stopped going to college to become a full time intern at Great Lakes Theater Festival.

Ellen DeGeneres dropped out of New Orleans after only one smester.

Left NYU and sung her way into world fame. Took a little meat wearing too..

Ralph Lauren left Baruch College for the U.S Army and came back a fashion designer.

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BEVERLY HILLS, CA - SEPTEMBER 29: Wolfgang Puck celebrates 30th anniversary and grand re-opening of Spago Beverly Hills on September 29, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. (Photo by Joe Scarnici/WireImage)

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